archive/ 2009 August
End of year reviews and the grading system
This would be ideal:
In my ideal management world, a review is simply a documentation of well-known facts, your performance over the year. It also contains constructive advice and insight regarding how your boss believes you can improve on that performance. My dream is that you already know all of this information because you’ve been getting [...]
Gruber vs. Lyons
A great response from Gruber to Dan “Fake Steve” Lyons post “Dear Gruber: You’ve Been Pwned”:
I say, “Look, don’t sweat it, Dan. You’re writing for Newsweek, the premiere magazine Americans turn to for week-old news when they’re sold out of Time. That’s what counts.”
Go read the whole thing, it’s worth it.
Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers
The Daily Dish discussing Chris Wallace’s “interview” with former Vice-President Dick “torture is legal under my laws” Cheney:
When future historians ask how the United States came not only to practice torture but to celebrate it and treat torturers as heroes, a special place in hell among the journalists who embraced and justified it should be [...]
The New Literacy
From a fascinating article at Wired:
Its almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasnt a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text like in law, advertising, or media, theyd leave school and virtually never construct [...]
Calling bullshit on social media
Scott Berkun on “social media:”
If anything has happened recently it’s not the birth of social networks, it’s the popularity of digital tools for social networks, which is something different. These tools may improve how we relate to each other, but at best it will improve upon something we as a species have always done.
I’m glad [...]